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Chang knows one side of a triangle is 13cm which set of two sides is possible for the lengths of the other two sides of this triangle

User Mattis
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Answer:

8cm and 9cm

Explanation:

just cuz

User Hoshi
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Use the Pythagorean Theorem to check out these possibilities (which you really do need to share here).

Note that 13^2 = 12^2 + 5^2, so 12 and 5 are a possible set of side lengths here.

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